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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89609	A word to Mr. VVil. Prynn Esq; and two for the Parliament and Army. Reproving the one, and justifying the other in their late proceedings. Presented to the consideration of the readers of Mr. William Prynns last books.	Marten, Henry, 1602-1680.	1649 (1649)	Wing M825; Thomason E537_16; ESTC R202874	7,433	18

necessitated to what they have done and that the people could be no other way made safe lying then upon the brincks of ruine The King to whom the very name of Parliament was alwayes hatefull having so much discontented all his people that in Scotland an Army was raised against him which he knew not how to oppose the English looking upon them as friends and fellow sufferers as his last refuge finding no other way to secure himselfe calls this Parliament for which as soone as they meet together they give him humble thankes they bring him bills which he not daring to denie signes and assents to and with such humble reverence make their addresses to him as if he were as much better then the best as he is worse then the worst of his Ancestors The King finding how weak adversaries he had to deale with conceives new hopes of doing mischiefe he tampers with divers men in the House of Commons he corrupts some of the most eminent as the Lord George Digby Sir John Culpepper with some others but finding notwithstanding their Revolt his partie in Parliament not strong enough to carrie on his base designes he flies to other practizes he deales first with the English Army and that plot discovered with the Scots to destroy the Parliament and for their reward to take the plunder of London This failing he urgeth earnestly to disband the Scotch Army only in which prevailing he against the Counsell of both Houses in haste takes a journey into Scotland there he contrives two plots the one of which tooke effect the most horrid and bloudie that ever any age was witnesse to the Irish Massacre and Rebellion acted by his Commission which was sealed in his owne presence and sent into Ireland as is confest by a Scottish gentleman in a book called Truth its manifest Having done his worst in Scotland he returnes to London and is received by the Citizens in triumph his hopes are every day more and more confirmed Some young gentlemen of the Innes of Court with a number of dissolute needie and debaucht Souldiers and men of broken fortunes flock to White-hall Thus attended he enters the House of Commons and had he found them there he had taken away five of their members the next day he goes into London and makes a faire speech but obtaines no beliefe He then goes to Hampton Court sends for some Aldermen whom he endeavours to make his friends them he Knighted and gave order to be sent home so drunke that their heads aking the next morning all but Sir John Gaire repenting their friendship never did his Majestie any service From thence he goes to Dover with the Queen whom he sends into the Low-Countries to pawne the Crowne Jewels and then flies into open Rebellion The Parliament though all his machinations and plots are discovered to them seeke no way of remedy but by Petition meanes very unlikely to worke upon his nature till they were necessitated to take up Armes and when they are to declare it to the Kingdome they cant and tell them it is for the defence of the King and Parliament Had they had but so much courage as to have informed the Common wealth of the Kings guilt and that his owne faults might have been written in his owne forehead not an evill Councell a thing without body or soule an empty name the old grave mens harmelesse bugbeare the King either had not found so many abettors or the Parliament had been able in a few moneths to have crusht all his forces and to have brought himselfe to Justice In this canting course they steere the Common wealth from the beginning of the yeare 1642. to the end of 1644. both sides seeming so equally strong that but for the cause there was scarce any advantage discoverable The Parliament new modell their Army and in the meane time treate at Vxbridge The treaty ended without successe the new Modell goes on Sir Thomas Fairfax is made General The words For preservation of the Kings person are not inserted in his Commission the King is now a common Rebell we have now an Enemy to fight with and see how God blesseth us upon it They meet no Enemyes in the field but they beat them not as in the time of the old Generall that fought drawn battles with no more advantage then might occasion a City feast counting it a victory not to be beaten they come before no Town but they take it in and in less then eighteenth months reduce all England and Wales to obedience The King thus broken in all places least the harrast Countrey should enjoy the benefit of Peace which he might then have made and miserable Ireland obtain relief falls again to plotting A little before the siege of Oxford in a disguise with one or two he rides through Norfolk and Suffolk endeavoring to raise new Commotions but the Gentlemen of that Countrey taking warning by other mens compositions that designe came to nothing so he leaves them and commits himself to the Scotish Army After some money paid the Scotch his Countreymen knowing him too well to care for his company even in their own Land deliver him up to the Parliament They as men that never stated any quarrel and could not tell what to have if God should give them victory having him now in their hands know not what to do with him They bring him to Holdenby and put him into a condition of making all Knaves that come neer him in a short time he administred and sent by his several Agents so much poyson to the Parliament that had it not pleased God to strengthen the hearts and hands of the Army he had been a yeer and a half since restored to his place and power and by this time those few that had survived had been the unhappy witnesses of a miserable Land For Mr. Denzil Hollis who was long since touched and infected by the King and the disease being contagious had in time infected divers of his company as Sir William Waller Sir Philip Stapleton and many others they together making up a Committee of eleven besides my Lady Carlile plotted and contrived to restore the King upon his own conditions To which purpose they consider of how little the King may offer the Parliament and how able they should be to perswade them that those offers were satisfactory in hast they send Letters to the Queen and in them their opinions how the Common-wealth might be cheated she returns their Papers with amendments which they send to the King who following their advice sends to the Parliament a Message the twelf of May 1647. Which caused all that Petitioning and all those tumults which followed immediately after forcing into the very house of Commons compelling the Speaker to put what questions they pleased and the Houses to vote them Upon these just fears there being no other refuge the honest Members of each House fly to the Army the Army receive them and marching up to